چل

From Hindustani, see Urdu چھل and Hindi छल (chal).

چل • (čal) m (plural چلونه (čaluna))

1. deception
2. fraud

• چلي (čali)

Alternative form of چهل (čehel, “forty”).

Readings
Classical reading?	čil
Dari reading?	čil
Iranian reading?	čel
Tajik reading?	čil

چل • (čel) (Persian numeral ۴۰)

1. forty

Alternative form of چول (čul, “penis”).

Readings
Classical reading?	čul
Dari reading?	čul
Iranian reading?	čol
Tajik reading?	čul

چل • (čol)

1. penis

   Synonyms: کیر (kir), آلت (âlat), دول (dul), نری (nari), قضیب (qazib), ذکر (zakar)

• →⇒ Khalaj: çuluk

Borrowed from Azerbaijani çil.

Readings
Classical reading?	čil
Dari reading?	čil
Iranian reading?	čel
Tajik reading?	čil

چل • (čel)

1. speckled, spotted
2. stupid, dim-witted

چل • (çel) (obsolete)

1. partridge or hazel grouse

   Synonyms: کبک (kabak), دج (daj), زرچ (zareč)

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چل”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 586